Sri Lankan Navy – Sri Lanka is back in combat with the Tamil Tigers.

• Associated Press: Sri Lanka Navy Destroys Tamil Rebel Boat

Royal Navy – The biggest threat to the Royal Navy in the Gulf – terrorists on speed boats.

• Daily Telegraph: British warships on ‘boat bombers’ alert

Canadian Navy – Canada takes delivery of its third Upholder-class submarine.

• Canadian Press: Canada takes possession of third sub

US Navy – Setting records aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

• Washington Post: Steaming Toward the Record Books, With No End in Sight
• New York Times: Weary Sailors Are Long Way and Long Time From Home

US Navy – Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.

• Virginian Pilot: Anxious sailors await word on war

US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

• CNN: ‘America’s Big Stick’ ready to strike

Background – Iraq – James Dunnigan and Thomas Ricks on why keeping the peace in postwar Iraq will be no piece of cake.

• StrategyPage: Winning The Peace in Iraq
• Washington Post: Army Fears Postwar Strife Will Test Occupation Force